Bible Quotes
"If anyone tells you, 'look! Here is the Messiah', or 'there He is!', don't pay any attention. For false messiahs and prophets will rise up and perform great miraculous signs and wonders so as to deceive even God's own people. See, I have warned you!
So if anyone says, 'There He is!', don't bother with them. Or, ' here He is in the desert!', don't believe it. As lightning lights up the entire sky, so it will be when the Son of Man returns to Earth. Just as vultures indicate that there is a carcass nearby, so these things will tell you that the end is near". (Matthew24: 23-29)
"For God so loved the world, that He gave
His only Son. So that whoever would
believe in Him shall not perish, but have
everlasting life". (John 3:16)
"You should also know this, Timothy: In the last days, there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving, unforgiving, they will slander others and have no self-control; they will be cruel and have no interest in what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, puffed up with pride and love pleasure rather than God. They will act as though they are religious but reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like this!" (2 Timothy 3: 1-5)
Reader: Does this ring true today? Paul wrote this in AD67!
"And yet it was our weakness He carried, it was our sorrows that weighed Him down. And we thought His troubles were a punishment from God for His own sins! But He was wounded and crushed for our sins. Beaten, that we might have peace; whipped, that we might be healed.
All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's path to follow our own. And yet, God Almighty laid upon Him the guilt and sin of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet He never said a word; He was as a lamb to the slaughter; as a sheep is silent before the shearers. He did not open His mouth. From prison and trial, they led Him away to His death. But who among the people realised that He was dying for their sins? That He was suffering their punishment? He had done no wrong and never deceived anyone. But He was buried like a criminal; put in a rich man's grave.
(Isaiah 53: 4-9)
Reader: Isaiah was writing about the way Jesus was to die.
This was written in 690BC
"If you see other kids behaving stupidly, stay away from them! They do bad things without even thinking. If a bird sees a trap being set, doesn't it get clever and stay away? You do the same. But these stupid people end up being caught in their own traps, don't they? Eventually, they are the ones who end up with nothing and in trouble. Stay good, and you'll keep what you've got - and you'll get more given to you by people who notice your cleverness!"
(Paraphrased, Proverbs 1: 15-19)
